Finding yourself in a charming historical village just ten kilometers from Hungary´s capital is one of the surprises the Danube River offers up to travelers. This small town (whose name is Hungarian for Saint Andrew) is the gateway to the Danube Bend, a curve of Hungary’s most majestic river, and it retains its 18th and 19th century appearance and atmosphere.
With a population of approximately 26 000, here to this day the customs and traditions of Serbs who fled the invading Ottoman Turkish armies at the end of the 17th century are kept alive. Evidence of this are the many churches and crosses all over town, built facing the east according to orthodox tradition, as well as the great cross erected in 1763 by traders in order to give thanks to God for protecting the town from the plague.
Read more in Tripatini contributor Iberostar Hotels & Resorts´ post Artsy Szentendre, on Hungary´s Danube Bend.
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